Malawi’s smallholder farming communities face escalating climate shocks, due mainly to their high sensitivity to climate ...

Extreme heat could be costing Indian workers the equivalent of 2% of their country’s GDP every year, according to new IIED ...

Approximately 1.6 billion smallholder and family farmers, Indigenous Peoples and local communities inhabit forest landscapes.

Land conversion, urbanisation and climate change exacerbate these pressures, placing biodiversity, food security, local ...

IIED is developing a practical framework to integrate energy access, climate adaptation and resilience in smallholder agriculture, helping practitioners design, measure and scale solutions that better ...

Despite complexities and blockages in the adaptation finance architecture, a series of case studies show how least developed countries and Small Island Developing States are innovating to develop ...

As countries grapple with the triple crisis of debt, climate change and nature loss, compounded by the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, multiple innovative solutions in sustainable finance are ...

We are an independent policy research organisation based in the UK and active in five continents through an extended network of partners. And as a growing organisation, we are often on the lookout for ...

The founder of the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), Barbara Ward was a pioneering economist, writer and lecturer. She was one of the first people to articulate the ...

Adaptation finance is central to action on climate change, yet it often fails to adequately reach those who need it the most. Small Island Developing States (SIDS) and least developed countries (LDCs) ...

IIED’s statement of financial activities showed increases in the organisation’s income and expenditure in 2024/25. Income increased to £32.6m (2024: £25.4m) and expenditure increased to £34.3m (2024: ...